Amazing to see Alastair Darling advising how his idea (I’m sure they have a listening device hidden in my house because I suggested it) of taking shares in the banks will pay off in the long run when they are sold off. Why didn’t he do that in the first place with Northern Rock? Instead we saw Northern Rock destroyed as a bank and the shareholding of millions of small investors reduced to a few Pence, literally Pence! So not much incentive for small investors to return to investing in the market when things improve is there? Banks appeared to be the one thing that people could “safely” invest in, so I predict a shortage of investment for some years to come. Alastair’s investment of our tax Billions is likely to remain invested for a long time to come, or until our shares are sold to some foreign investor. What will be the last thing we sell to foreign owners, only to wonder why the jobs and the profits go abroad?

Amazing isn’t it that people still want to come here, people still open new businesses here, people like me stay here and are proud to be English and to be British. The reason is that in Britain as a whole we co-operate with each other, we support each other, we are enthusiastic, we try new things, we have new ideas and we try them out, we are born tryers, and best of all we often win. Amazing that as multinationals have moved jobs abroad, the number of small and medium sized businesses in the UK has grown to over 4.7 million. Who says we don’t have the energy anymore – we really do.

So here’s a warning to multinationals moving jobs and operations abroad. If you do, then people won’t just buy what you make or create abroad, the space will be filled by new businesses here and eventually those new businesses will replace what you though you had in the UK. If you want to succeed in the UK you need to produce things here, you need to be here. I for one haven’t bought HP Sauce since Heinz moved production to Holland. I’m just waiting for a suitable replacement to appear, and it will – it will! You just watch and wait!

Then I can enjoy my “Full English Breakfast” again.